Timothy Murphy wrote: > The rest is setting up ssh to work as root on the clients, > and this requires 3 steps: > 1. ssh-keygen as root on the client
You don't need to run ssh-keygen on the clients, only on the BackupPC server. You copy the public key that is generated on the BackupPC server to the clients. >> As I said, "behind the scenes" means "what *you* configured". If >> you use >> the default values, you will need to understand what they mean. You >> should >> at least have *looked at* the values, in which case you should have >> noticed the 'ssh -q -x -l root $host ...' > > Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long. > I've no intention of reading that. > Life is too short. If you're serious about doing backups, I recommend you really read through the configuration. I read all of it and afterwards I understood a lot more about how BackupPC works, what it's doing exactly and what kind of things can be changed and tweaked. Reading 2165 lines to make sure you have a good feeling about backing up all data that is important to you sounds like a bargain to me. Mostly it's a summary of the online docs by the way. Reading those I recommend even more actually. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
